Improvement in butter-packages



STATESl PATENT -C FF1ci3i` JOSEPH C. TILTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT iN BUTT-ER-PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,899, dated June 1, 1875 application filed August 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. TILTON, of the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Alleglienyr and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Butter-Package, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my butterpackage, and Fig. 2 a section of the same.

My invention relates to vessels or packages (so called by the trade) in which butter is packed for preservation and transportation; and consists in the specific construction of a vessel for such purpose, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

To enable others to make and use my in-l vention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is a metallic vessel, enameled or lined on the inside with porcelain, B. This vessel may be made of any shape or size desired. C is the cover, which may be made of Wood or other suitable material, and which is secured on the top of the vessel A by the rod I), which passes over the cover. The ends of this rod are turned over and form hooks E F, which hook under the ange G, which surrounds the top of the vessel. This iiange has a notch, H,

cut in one side, in which the hook E is placed,

the end catching under the flange. The other end of the rod, having the hook F, is then drawn to its place under the ange at I by a circular movement, as indicated by the arrow in the drawing, the llange being partly cut away, as shown, to allow the hook to slide to its place, (opposite ythe notch H,) Where the shoulder, formed by the full projection of the flange, protects the hook and prevents the dislodgment ot the bar D.

This mode of securing the top is simple, cheap, and effectual. The porcelain lining ot' the package is not affected by, nor can it at'- fect, the butter; it therefore forms, when protected by metal, one of the best materials in which to pack butter, which is so easily affected by the package in which it is placed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described butter-package, consisting of a metallic case, A, porcelain lining` B, and notched tlange G, in combination with cover Gand spring-bar D, for fastening down the same, all constructed and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH C; TILTON. lWitnesses:

FRANCIS L. CLARK, T. B. ALcoRN. 

